Spain’s King Felipe VI has made a last ditch effort to convince the country’s political party leaders to form a coalition government.
The king, now in his third round of talks, will finish his negotiations on Tuesday at a final meeting with acting Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy.
…and so it begins, the unravelling of a major part of the fabric of Portugal’s tax deals for foreigners wishing to settle here as the Finnish tax department has won the argument over its country's retirees living in Portugal without paying income tax on their private sector pensions.
Portuguese Finance Ministry officials have agreed to sign a new bilateral treaty with Finland which will see an end to the current ten year tax holiday that has encouraged many Finns to head to the sun.
Expensive Chihuahuas, the smallest breed of dog, and other small “toy” dogs are being targeted by conmen in Italy.
As many as 3,500 Chihuahuas were taken last year, a sharp rise over the 1,400 incidents reported in 2014, according to an animal rights organisation in Italy.
A young German woman has swum across the Mediterranean from Europe to Africa.
Nathalie Pohl, 21, took 2 hours and 53 minutes to achieve the 15 kilometre distance, setting a new world record. The Gibraltar-record for men is 2 hours and 16 minutes,
Algarve anti-oil groups are watching with inreasing concern as Italian authorites 'monitor' a two-kilometre-long oil spill off Itay's prized Riviera coastline.
The 500 metre wide slick has been moving slowly westwards from waters off Genoa, and threatens to pollute holiday beaches just as the tourist season begins. The risk of a new spill into the Mediterranean is said by authorities to be "under control" - a statement few believe as the oil slick threatens the premier Itailan Riviera and smaller areas of oil pollution are being reported by fishermen.
Sol newspaper carries an exclusive this weekend on its front page entitled “New evidence implicates mother in Portimão crime”.
Alongside the banner headline is a photograph of the woman whose vacillating testimony on the killing of her son has left thousands wondering why she is not already behind bars.
French newspaper Le Figaro has accused Portuguese pharmaceutical company Bial of having omitted crucial information to volunteers who took part in the Phase 1 drug trial in France that killed one previously healthy person in January, and left four others with “life changing disabilities”.
Months after it was revealed that three dogs had died in preliminary testing of Bial’s molecule BIA 10-2474 (click here), it now emerges that rats, mice and primates also suffered irreversible consequences.
But nowhere in the 13-pages of documentation that volunteers were asked to sign was any of this explained.
Barclays is, ending its physical presence in Gibraltar after 127 years and leaving its last 16 locally-resident employees out of a job.
The decision had been widely anticipated and will have little practical impact on local consumers, as the bank had already wound down the parts of its business that dealt with the Gibraltar market, but it deals a heavy blow to a skeleton staff that had committed to help Barclays retain a small presence on the Rock, and who now face an uncertain future.
